The greatest need of my people is my own holiness.

A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

When we begin to shine, the darkness of ignorance will disappear from our society.

Sometimes, ” she whispered, her lips brushing his cheek, “you need to be lost in order to be found.

Long is the night to him who is awake

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

[With] closet indexing....you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.

No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

Don't be absent from your own life.

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.